In case you’ve wondered… Yes, calving season is cruising along. We have calved all but 9 of our heifers… so we still are doing our evening, 2 am, and early morning checks. Last week our cows started calving as well. We do not check them in the night, but do try to keep a…
Fossil Cliffhanger … part two
Fossils are prolific in Wyoming. This place is heaven if you like fossil fish… Then there’s mucho dinosaurs in the Big Horn Basin… Even in my front driveway are these… thousands of white seashells imbedded in a matrix. And my friend Shreve over at Daily Coyote makes extra bucks selling belemnites! But for now… these…
Fossil Cliffhanger
Keeping an eye out… is Lucas… I’ve been on a kick lately… One of the things I received from my Mom’s house was my Dad’s small collection of fish fossils from the Green River formation in southwest Wyoming. It is way spiffy! The wheels started turning… and soon I have a plan for my bathroom…
Gettin’ the Job Done
We went to a bull sale in Riverton today. Bull sales have their multiple appeals… and I’ve written about them before, here and here. How’d we manage to get away from calving? Well, the boys came home from school for the weekend, specifically to cover for us. They are GOOD men! I’m always interested in…
Mud
I really think the Q & A yesterday went quite well… Please give me leave to touch on a few other comments… Sara… the plight of the family farm/ranch being passed down to the next generation is insane. I’m not much for sharing politics on this blog, but Congress better address this *fast* as next…
Questions and Answers
Wow… I am SO HAPPY some of you sent in questions! I had this *great fear* that no one would ask anything and I’d be twiddling my thumbs or having to cruise eBay for entertainment tonight! So, first off, thanks to you who gave me some inspiration… Let’s go! (The bar)…
Wordless Wednesday – “Going, Going, Gone”
Here’s my Wordless Wednesday entry for today… The ice on the Nowood River disappears… February 25, 2010… March 2, 2010 Please send any questions you have for me to the comments section… I’ll answer them tomorrow!
Great Reward
Last night we had our largest calf we’ve had in the heifers… a whopping 100 pounder! That’s like having an 11 pound baby for us. For your first baby. Big. Ugh. Ouch. But… that’s why we check them… to be there when they need help. So, I go over to the calving shed… see the…
The Bar Part Two
Forgive my slimy hands… we just returned from calving a *big* bull calf… so I’m a tad late in posting. I’ll write about it soon… and for the record… I do NOT have slime on my hands still. I washed it off. Twice. Honest. Slimy keyboard = not appealing. So… Back to THE BAR. We…
The Bar
Another afternoon of painting up at the Mills place… priming and painting two coats on everything is VERY time consuming… plus I try to caulk anything that a boxelder bug can crawl through… and each window rattles like a chime when tapped, so I caulk around them as well… I have various boxes of my…
Spring Calves
Victoria, Matt, Jazz, and little Sadie Lady visited for a couple of days… Daniel came home… Warm weather snuck in the back door… Forty six calves have appeared out of our sixty three heifers… Enjoy!
Darkness, Rah!
“I am a lineman for the county… and I drive the main roads… searching in the sun for another overload.” I couldn’t help it… the song just sprang into my mind after seeing this. HUH? What did you say? What’s *that* got to do with *this*? Well… I know where Vernon is headed. I know…